Overweight, Obesity, Diabetes, and Risk of Breast Cancer: Interlocking Pieces of the Puzzle

We considered epidemiological data on overweight, diabetes, insulin, and breast cancer. Overweight is inversely related to premenopausal breast cancer, but there is definite evidence that, as compared with normal weight women, the relative risk (RR) for postmenopausal breast cancer is around 1.5 for...

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Main Authors: La Vecchia, Carlo, Giordano, Sharon H., Hortobagyi, Gabriel N., Chabner, Bruce
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: AlphaMed Press 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228228/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21632448
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2011-0050
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